Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-03-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev
On Tue, Mar 8 2022 at 03:01:04 PM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: It turns out this above opinion of mine doesn't reflect a consensus opinion inside Igalia. After sending the above e-mail, I talked with my colleagues at Igalia (my failure for not doing that before) and it seems that we

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-03-08 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev
On 17/02/2022 18:41, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev wrote: > Personally I'm ok with this, since I usually error on the conservative > side regarding updating dependencies. But I'm raising the topic to put > things into perspective and to help having a debate. It turns out this above opi

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-28 Thread Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev
On Thu, Feb 17 2022 at 01:20:50 PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev wrote: That seems like a reasonable request. I'll delay modifying the policy until I'm able to provide an answer regarding the requested bots. This could take a while, so the proposed policy change is dead for now. But

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev
On Thu, Feb 17 2022 at 05:41:34 PM +, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev wrote: If I understand this correctly, that would mean that we would have to support the libraries that we rely on, up to a version that may be quite old. Right now we are supporting a cycle of 2+1=3 (both

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-17 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev
On 17/02/2022 17:41, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev wrote: > Also if we are going to do this, and we are serious about it, then we > would need at least two new buildbots at build.webkit.org for testing > the build on the last two versions of RHEL. > Is RedHat going to provide the resour

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-17 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev
On 08/02/2022 16:57, Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to selfishly propose updating our dependencies policy > https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy in order to > accommodate RHEL in addition to Debian and Ubuntu. My goal is to provide > WebKitGTK updat

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev
Hi, Since nobody objected to this proposal, I will update our policy soon. Michael ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

[webkit-dev] Proposal to update WebKitGTK dependency policy

2022-02-08 Thread Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev
Hi, I'd like to selfishly propose updating our dependencies policy https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy in order to accommodate RHEL in addition to Debian and Ubuntu. My goal is to provide WebKitGTK updates for the first five years (the "full support" period) of a RHEL ma